Let me begin by saying I checked my mailbox three times a day while I was waiting for a package from Nostrovia! Press to arrive. In said package were the press’ three new chapbooks: “Make a Fist & Tongue the Knuckles,” “i can remember the meaning of every tarot card but i can’t remember what i texted you last last night,” and “I Was Talking About Love—You Are Talking About Geography” by Emily O’Neill, Ellen Nash, and Bob Sykora respectively.

When the chapbooks arrived, I carried them with me, rereading, for days.

The sky separated hours ago. Los Angeles is an endless row of minivans, the anxious dreams of flushed alligators deflating in the dry heat.” from “I Was Talking About Love – You Are Talking About Geography” by Bob Sykore by Beach Sloth : “People torture themselves with… Read More

The story goes that two neighborhood cops pulled me out of my mother when I was born. Perfect emergency.” from “Make a Fist & Tongue the Knuckles” by Emily O’Neill by Beach Sloth : “People keep themselves to themselves. Sometimes they share in America’s weird lands… Read More

the orgasm when it’s happening is everything but then it ends and it’s nothing” from “i can remember the meaning of every tarot card but i can’t remember what i texted you last night” by Elle Nash by Beach Sloth : “Identities are everything. A person… Read More

i could tell you how this poetry makes me feel but i have water in my lungs currently” “chapbooks are buildings & often they are nothing more. the words can be so beautiful & i can set it down on my sofa & walk away… Read More